活欲

Chinese

		to live; alive; living to live; alive; living; work; workmanship	desire; longing; appetite desire; longing; appetite; wish
simp. and trad. (活欲)		活	欲
alternative forms		活要

Pronunciation

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): oa̍h-beh / oa̍h-berh

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• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa̍h-beh
    • Tâi-lô: ua̍h-beh
    • Phofsit Daibuun: oaqbeq
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /ua(ʔ)¹²¹⁻²¹ beʔ³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /ua(ʔ)⁴⁻¹¹ beʔ³²/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Kaohsiung): /ua(ʔ)⁴⁻²¹ beʔ³²/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: oa̍h-berh
    • Tâi-lô: ua̍h-berh
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /ua(ʔ)²⁴⁻² bəʔ⁵/

Adverb

活欲

1. (Southern Min) simply; totally; nearly; almost

   活欲予你氣死 [Hokkien, trad.]
   活欲予你气死 [Hokkien, simp.]

   oa̍h-beh hō͘ lí khì-sí [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

   simply mad at you

2. (Mainland China Hokkien, used in exclamations) how; what; so; such

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 多麼 (“how; what; so; such”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		何等, 何其, 一何, 何哉, 何等也, 何則
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		多麼, 何等, 何其
Mandarin	Beijing	多麼, 多
	Taiwan	多麼, 多
	Jinan	多麼, 多
	Xi'an	多
	Wuhan	幾, 幾樣, 好
	Chengdu	好, 多
	Guilin	好
	Yangzhou	多
	Hefei	好
	Malaysia	多
	Singapore	多麼, 多
Cantonese	Guangzhou	幾, 幾咁
	Hong Kong	幾, 幾咁
	Yangjiang	幾
Gan	Nanchang	幾
Hakka	Meixian	幾
Jin	Taiyuan	多麼, 多來
Northern Min	Jian'ou	幾多
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	若夥, 若
Southern Min	Xiamen	偌, 偌爾仔, 活, 活欲
	Quanzhou	偌, 活, 活欲
	Zhangzhou	偌, 偌爾仔, 偌仔爾, 活, 活欲
	Taipei	偌爾, 偌仔爾
	Kaohsiung	偌爾, 偌仔爾
	Penang (Hokkien)	偌
	Singapore (Hokkien)	偌
	Manila (Hokkien)	偌
	Chaozhou	若
	Singapore (Teochew)	若
Zhongshan Min	Shaxi (Longdu)	幾
Wu	Shanghai	多少, 幾化
	Suzhou	幾化
	Wenzhou	幾倈, 幾恁
Xiang	Changsha	幾, 幾多, 好
	Shuangfeng	幾, 好